Sinn Fein has cut the DUP's 10-seat Stormont advantage to a single seat in its best performance in Northern Ireland election history.

The Democratic Unionist Party won 28 of the 90 seats to narrowly remain the largest party in Northern Ireland by just over 1,000 votes.

Both parties will now have three weeks to form a new power-sharing government to avoid devolved power returning to Westminster for the first time in a decade, but relations between the two are at their lowest since power-sharing began in 2007 and Sinn Fein has demanded the resignation of outgoing first minister Arlene Foster as one of its terms for re-entering government.

Irish rock band U2 have been revealed as the richest entertainers in Ireland according to the 2017 Sunday Times Irish Rich List, which will be published tomorrow.

Band members Bono, Edge, Larry Mullen Jr and Adam Clayton, who have a combined wealth of an estimated €645 million, have topped the Irish Entertainers' Rich List, accounting for more than 30% of the overall wealth measured in Ireland.

Also featuring on the list are Pierce Brosnan, Colin Farrell, Daniel O’Donnell, Michael Flatley and Enya.